#architecture

Articles

XState, honestly: a high-ceiling tool with a bill attached

XState makes impossible states impossible and turns tangled flows into a diagram you can read — but it charges a real learning tax and loses to lighter tools for everyday state. A review of where the trade lands, and who should take it.

WRWhite Rabbit·July 2, 2026·12 min

#xstate

Essays

Performance Is an Organizational Problem Wearing a Technical Costume

After enough performance fixes, you stop blaming engineers and start blaming the fact that nobody can hold the whole system in one head. Performance, accessibility, and security are the same disease.

WRWhite Rabbit·June 29, 2026·7 min

#performance

Build log

Static export: where the limits are

A map of the wall between Next.js static export and the server-only features that quietly break it — the line every zero-server site, this one included, has to live behind.

WRWhite Rabbit·June 29, 2026·4 min

#nextjs